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It depends on how you classify content. The game actually has plenty of content (play all branches without skipping), it's just that it could have more, without burning the dev down, with the right issues fixed.
For instance L&P has stated, if I recall correctly, that theres a 5% decrease in time by rendering 1080p with his new setup vs his old setup rendering 720p and a 20% decrease if he renders 720p now with this new setup vs the old one.
Looking at, best case scenario, 8 years of development, just do 720p and let someone upscale it using tools, why throw away a net 15% of development time?
L&P has stated that it takes his new setup 20 to 30 minutes rendering a 1080p image. For simplicity, lets put it at 25 minutes for an average of 600 renders. That's 15000 minutes solely rendering, per update, in 1080p.
Could be 12000 minutes if it was in 720p.
That's a 50 hour difference per each update and will probably grow has he keeps growing the nr of renders per version.
Looking at his version numbers, he still has 58 updates to do * 50 hours, that's 3 months of time lost just on rendering 1080p. A full update time.
If there are great tools right now in 2021 to upscale these renders, in a few years they'll be even better. Use those.
Anyways these lost posts won't do much. If he's really planning on releasing this game until its end in 2028-2030, he needs a plan asap and it's in these tiny things that you take a few days here, a chunk of days there and when you notice you're throwing the same amount of content at a faster pace because you optimized all your work.
yeah .. u say ur a rich kid and his follower and u cant even read or remember his goal?
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96 % erreicht
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If this high goal is really achieved someday:
I cancel all my college courses and devote all my time to my passion of (adult) game development!
I'll give my hardware a massive "face-lift", primarily to render faster and switch from 720p to 1080p quality!
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The guy lives in my countrie afaik and we have high living cost and an education isnt something u throw just away.. certainly not after it taking so long to come close to that goal. And whatever he is studying should come to a close not far away.. so the goal probably means nothing. He would be an idiot if he were to throw that education close to end.
Next thing is that version numbers dont mean shit when it comes to projects...
There is no plan to that takes him in a 100 updates to the 1.0 ...
upscaling btw work right now best from 1080p and better from 1440 to 4k and not from 720p as that does not have enough information in the image to give highres results.
Also u make a calculation about render times and make a fuzz about 3 month render time vs... and end date in 7 to 9 whole years... and u tell me u had a company and find this important??
And rendering can be done in batches and at night or at a server farm if one has money....so 600 hundred renders in 3 month
24 hours per day times 7 times 3 makes 2016 hours of render time in 3 month.
if he needs only half an hour per render he could make 4000 renders per update....
render time isnt the issue here
and let me make this clear.... 7 times 4 times 3 are 84 days.... 600 renders divided by 84 are like
7.1 render per day.... which takes him 3,5 hours to render per day.....
Seriously if u dont have a plan how things work in cg at all u shouldnt make big statements of what would be the best way todo this.